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Islamabad bomb targets people in need | Saleem Vaillancourthttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/bomb-islamabad-un-pakistan
The UN World Food Programme is one of the few agencies able to help deprived Pakistanis, as I saw for myself just last week<p>Last week in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan" title="Guardian: Pakistan">Pakistan</a> I met a receptionist at the World Food Programme in Islamabad. It was brief – I was presenting myself for an appointment, and I do not know if she was Gulrukh Tahir, one of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/05/bomb-blast-un-islamabad-pakistan" title="Guardian: Bomb blast hits UN base in Islamabad">five people killed there today</a> by a suicide bomber.</p><p>But I can picture her foyer; it must be wreckage now. I remember smiling at the guards who checked my bag when I entered the fortified compound, the same guards who were evaded by a man suspected to be Pakistani Taliban. His target was a United Nations agency charged with getting food to disaster zones and preventing hunger in poor communities. In Pakistan, some of its beneficiaries are the millions displaced by the Taliban's conflict with the government.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/bomb-islamabad-un-pakistan">Continue reading...</a>PakistanTalibanWorld newsMon, 05 Oct 2009 15:08:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/bomb-islamabad-un-pakistanSaleem Vaillancourt2009-10-05T15:08:00Z